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His main interests outside work are cycling, open water swimming, running, bagpipes and following Burnley FC. The podcast is made by Goalhanger, a company co-founded by the ex-footballer and Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker. From 2000-03, he was the Downing Street director of communications and strategy; he also worked for Labour in various guises during the election campaigns of 2005, 2010 and 2015.
Campbell seems to be writing this from somewhere close to the end of his tether, furious that the current Government has tainted politics so thoroughly that voters might feel it best to disengage entirely, for ever. The first is an analysis of how we got to this state of affairs, with the global financial crisis a key moment, and the 3Ps of the modern age, populism, polarisation and post-truth politics, exploited by opportunistic politicians around the world to change the nature of political debate in a way that threatens to undermine democracy itself.It emerged McGuinness was helping Campbell with a novel which had an Irish Republican Army (IRA) active service unit as part of the plot. Campbell has published eight volumes of diaries, a book on the Northern Ireland peace process, four novels, two memoirs on living with depression, including the bestseller Living Better, and Winners, which also went straight to Number One in the Sunday Times charts. He won a phone-hacking case against News International, and was a witness for Prince Harry in his case against the Mirror Group.
Theirs is an almost fairy-tale story of the fusion of teamship and leadership, in which the local, very personal actions of a leader who never saw himself as such led to a global organisation that has helped and saved countless lives. Their first interview was with Ed Miliband, followed by Rachel Riley, Jamie Carragher, Kelly Holmes and Maro Itoje. You can subscribe to our YouTube channel to be alerted when the recording is uploaded, or just check our channel after the 24 May, when the video should have been made available. Added to that was the fact that, as I have already hinted, we became part of the problem we were trying to solve.
He was for many years chairman of fund-raising of Bloodwise, Britain’s main blood cancer charity, but in recent years has become increasingly involved with mental health charities and causes, speaking about his own experience of depression, psychosis and addiction, and of his brother Donald’s lifelong struggle with schizophrenia.
If your life or anyone you know has been touched by alcoholism, there is only one Bob, just as there is only one Bill. He did this until he resigned in September 2003, saying it had been an enormous privilege but he wanted more of a life with his partner Fiona and their three children, Rory, Calum and Grace, now aged 36, 34 and 29. I endlessly debated on TV, radio and in public meetings, with prominent Leavers like Nigel Farage and Jacob Rees-Mogg. He then moved to the post of Prime Minister's Director of Communications, which gave him a strategic role in overseeing government communications.Today, there are more than 120,000 AA groups, with over two million active participants, achieving more together than they do alone and getting good out of bad.
His second novel Maya, a gripping analysis of fame and the obsession it attracts, was published in February 2010. Social media has done much to harm thoughtful public debate, and culture warriors continue to exploit grievances rather than engage with them, and yet I still believe that if you have the better argument, ultimately you give yourself the better chance of winning. Campbell made his first appearance on the BBC One political discussion programme Question Time on 27 May 2010.Campbell has talked extensively about how Donald had inspired him to fight for better mental health services and understanding, and to become the ambassador for several mental health charities. He’s also a bruiser: tribal, pugnacious, overly confident, and apt to lose his temper – as he did in the middle of a discussion about Brexit on the BBC’s Newsnight only the other evening. Somehow, everything is on the outside with Campbell, even as he looks ever inwards, a state of affairs that only makes Rory Stewart’s John Buchan-esque international-man-of-mystery persona seem the more exotic. In March 2022, Campbell launched The Rest is Politics podcast with Rory Stewart, a former Conservative Member of Parliament and candidate in the 2019 Conservative Party leadership election. It doesn’t matter how old you are, what qualifications you have or haven’t got, or where you come from.
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